The Propriety Of Some Persons Seems To

One Said Of Suicide, As Long As One Has Brains One Should Not Blow Them Out. And Another Answered, But When One Has Ceased To Have Them, Too Often One Cannot.

The Self Has Turned Out To Mean So Many Things, To Mean Them So Ambiguously, And To Be So Wavering In Its Application, That We Do Not Feel Encouraged.

The Hunter For Aphorisms On Human Nature Has To Fish In Muddy Water, And He Is Even Condemned To Find Much Of His Own Mind.

It Is Good To Know What A Man Is, And Also What The World Takes Him For. But You Do Not Understand Him Until You Have Learnt How He Understands Himself.

The Deadliest Foe To Virtue Would Be Complete Self-knowledge.